About Me

I am licensed in Connecticut and New York, offering telehealth visits in both states and in-person visits in New Haven, CT.

I am passionate about supporting individuals in discovering their inner wisdom and living self-compassionate, authentic, meaningful lives. I am honored and humbled to witness the germination, growth, and flowering of the human spirit.

My approach weaves together traditional, Western, theories with mindfulness, meditation, and Eastern philosophy. I obtained my doctoral degree at the California Institute of Integral Studies. There, I obtained training in Cognitive Behavioral, Existential, Humanistic, and Psychodynamic approaches to healing. I also studied Taoist and Buddhist perspectives on wellbeing. I completed my internship at the Post Traumatic Stress Center in New Haven, Connecticut, where I witnessed individuals not only experience alleviation of their symptoms, but also flourish and re-discover meaning after having lost faith in their core spiritual beliefs. Since becoming a licensed psychologist, I have been on the faculty at Yale University, where I am regularly exposed to cutting edge research and treatment approaches. Concurrently, I have completed yoga teacher training as well as certification in Yoga of 12 Step Recovery and a workshop in Yoga Based Cognitive Behavioral Treatment of Anxiety.

In my experience, the most powerful approach to healing and transformation lies in creating a sacred space where each individual can look inside and find his or her inner wisdom and inner capacity for healing.

Throughout my life, I have been curious about components of well-being and dis-ease that occur at the individual and also at the social/cultural and global levels. I have sought to examine these factors from a variety of perspectives, such as that of a participant observer, that of an academic, and from personal self-reflection—experiencing, reflecting, studying what others have written, and then experiencing again in an iterative manner. For example, spending two years as the only American in a Southern African village provided me with the experience of being “other” common to many therapy participants. Walking into a prison to do a mental health evaluation and then walking out again provides rich opportunity to self-reflect on the experience and meaning of freedom and confinement. I believe that my multi-modal, multidisciplinary approach to the examination of well-being and dis-ease enhances my ability to see and empathize with the complexities of therapy participants’ situations while simultaneously employing empirically validated therapies to treat anxiety, depression, and addiction.

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